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Casamicciola Terme has a surface of 5,6 Kmqs with a population of around 7000 inhabitants. Its altitude goes from meters 0 on the level of the sea to the 788 reached near the Epomeo. The town territory is separated among the fractions of Perrone, Castiglione, Bath Plaza, You Rita, the Sentinel and Maio Plaza. The native name of Casamicciola was changed in 1956 in Casamicciola Terme keeping in mind of its thermal vocation that had traditions by now centenary.
Placed to the slopes of the Epomeo Mountain, to north of a volcanic island, in an enviable climatic position, it has founded for centuries its fortune on the exploitation of the thermal waters. The abundance of thermal waters essentially derives him from the outflow of the waters rain of it, along the slopes of the Epomeo Mountain, that in their run toward valley they penetrate in the ground for filtering enriching itself of mineral. The water, after having reached zones of the subsoil to elevated temperature, more go out to heated valley and enriched from precious salts and at the end it is picked up in impermeable underground basins that are situated little bottom the surface of the ground. From such basins they gush out rising of water and fumarole that have different uses in the care of the health. Besides the baths of mineral waters that as therapeutic aid is practised in different illnesses of the it systematizes skeletal muscle and of the exchange, it is very also used the mud-therapy that is practised through the application of kept muds to mature in the warm waters of the sources for different months.
During the centuries, this town is specialized more and more in the use of the thermal waters to therapeutic purpose and for different centuries, above all beginning from 1700, it has been destination of tourists coming from the whole world. In the first years of 1600, a denominated Neapolitan Noble institution "Pious Mountain of the Mercy", composed by Neapolitan noble animated by benevolent spirit, a great establishment thermal built you with attached "hospice" in which the poor men of the city of Naples were taken care of free. The center of the establishment, originally situated really on the principal source of thermal water, the source of the Gurgitiello, was destroyed in the ruinous earthquake of 28 July of 1883 and it was subsequently reconstructed more to valley, really on the coast where everything is visible now even if unfortunately in a state of total abandonment and I degrade. The 1883 earthquake, besides destroying the complex of the Pious Mountain of the Mercy, destroyed practically the most greater part in the town provoking around 2000 victims and destroying all over the world hotels and famous elegant structures. During the years the town is evolved and the traditional tourist vocation, tied up essentially to the thermal cares, it has slowly widened mostly aiming to the tourism of mass and type nautical boats.
Currently it is endowed with an I bring commercial with landings for cruiseliners that connect it both to Naples that to Pozzuoli that cohabits with an I bring type tourist for the receipt of recreation boats.
The tourist activity that was primarily developed originally in the hilly zone (Region Maio, You Rita, Sentinel, Plaza of the Baths), currently you/he/she has spread on the whole territory. The center, that was situated in the tall zone up to the 1883 earthquake, progressively moves to the coastal zone of the harbor.
They abounds more in the place "Castiglione", "The Rita" and to Bath Plaza where the most greater part in the hotels and thermal establishments are situated. Some among the more notes rising I am: Gurgitello, Tamburro, Gold, Silver, Iron, Eye, Strained. Casamicciola is to the first place among the other communes of the island for the thermal cares. In last century you/he/she has been frequented by an international clientele as Lamartine, Renan, Ibsen and also Garibaldi.
Few the historical monuments because of the continuous telluric movements (the last one goes up again to 1883): the Pious Mountain of the Mercy, first establishment for the thermal cares, church of the Good Suggestion, church of St. Gabriele, noble chapel devoted to St. Francis of Assisi, parish church devoted Penitent Maria Maddalena to the Sacred Heart and Saint, Church of the immaculate one, the Geophysical observatory founded by Giulio Grablovitz. Excursions on the surrounding hills to the fund of Oglio and the Cretaio (Wood of the Maddalena) or to the slopes of the Epomeo mountain.